The Quiet American was the first film adaptation of Graham Greene's bestselling novel, released in 1958. "A haunting portrait of US-backed terror in 1950s Vietnam," Richard Phillips, World Socialist Web Site, 2002, webpage: blank">WSWS-TQA-d17. The film, directed by _Joseph L. Mankiewicz and starring Audie Murphy, Michael Redgrave, and Giorgia Moll, was critically well-received, though not considered a box office success.

The film script was written by Mankiewicz, with uncredited input from CIA officer Edward Lansdale, who was often said to be the actual inspiration for the American character "Pyle," played by Murphy.

The film was also dedicated to Ngo Dinh Diem, the U.S.-backed president of South Vietnam who took office shortly after the novel's publication. In a Hollywood still recovering from the blacklist of American communists, the film stirred a controversy, as Graham Greene was furious that his anti-American message was excised, and he disavowed the Mankiewicz film as a "propaganda film for America."

The Quiet American is a 2002 film adaptation of Graham Greene's bestselling novel. It was directed by Phillip Noyce and starred Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, and Do Thi Hai Yen.

The 2002 version of The Quiet American, in contrast to the 1958 version, depicted Greene's original ending and treatment of the principal American character, Pyle. Like the novel, the film illustrates Pyle's moral culpability in fostering intrigue within the South Vietnamese government. Going beyond Greene's original work, the film used a montage ending with superimposed images of American soldiers from the intervening decades of the Vietnam War.

While acclaimed by some critics, the film was not a commercial success. Some reviewers felt it suffered from overly restrained performances and a heavy-handed moralism that was absent in the novel.

In this adaptation of Graham Greene's prophetic novel about U.S. foreign policy failure in pre-war Indochina, Audie Murphy plays an innocent Young American opposite the older, cynical Brit Michael Redgrave. They play out their widely different views on the prospects stuggle for the hearts and minds of the Vietnamese people in their competition over a young woman. Murphy wants to reform her and make her a typical middle class American housewife; Redgrave accepts her inability to formulate or retain a political ideal and while promising her no real future, he objects to Murphy's attempts to change her. It's not clear whether Murphy is just what he appears - a bungling Yankee do-gooder - or a deliberate agent of U.S. covert operations, but he ends up an expendable pawn in the end. Written by Rita Richardson

Love, politics and intrigue intermingle in this taut retelling of Graham Greene's classic tale of a disillusioned British journalist, an idealistic young American and the beautiful Vietnamese woman that comes between them in 1950s Saigon. Written by Anonymous

Saigon, 1952, a beautiful, exotic, and mysterious city caught in the grips of the Vietnamese war of liberation from the French colonial powers. New arrival Alden Pyle (Brendan Fraser), an idealistic American aid worker, befriends London Times correspondent Thomas Fowler (Michael Caine). When Fowler introduces Pyle to his beautiful young Vietnamese mistress Phuong (Hai Yen) the three become swept up in a tempestuous love triangle that leads to a series of startling revelations and finally - murder. Nothing, and no one, is as it seems, in this adaptation of Graham Greene's classic and prophetic story of love, betrayal, murder and the origin of the American war in Vietnam. Written by Anonymous